Consistency of a set of chemical reactions

✍ Scribed by P. Oliver

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 338 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0538-8066
• DOI: 10.1002/kin.550120802

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

It is a useful feature of many general chemical kinetics programs that the user's reaction scheme is tested as far as possible before a calculation is started. Attempts are made to answer the question: How far can a reaction scheme be tested for consistency, with respect to mass conservation, without knowing the molecular weights of the species involved? It is found that this problem can be transformed so that it is solvable by the standard methods used in linear programming.